Norah Sturdee
Norah Sturdee (circa 1892-)[1] was a British actress
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Biography
Born about 1892 in Blackheath, London, Middlesex, she was the daughter of Arthur Frederick Sturdee and Inez Geraldine (Heyer) Sturdee. Round about 1911 she had studied as an early student in the Academy of Dramatic Art (founded under the guidance of Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1904).
She married the actor Frank S Bromley-Challenor in June of 1915 and on December of 1920 she married Reginald Eric Jennens Moore, with whom she had two children, Mary Valerie Moore and Gerald Holyoake Moore.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
In the actress who toured South Africa with James Bromley-Challoner's theatrical company in about 1915 or 1916, probably with her husband, who was James's brother.
Sources
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sturdee-14
E-mail correspondence with Nick Jackson about Norah Sturdee and the South African tour (1 May 2020).
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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